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Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ideas are associated with the snow in this poem?
(a) Punishment, corruption, and justice.
(b) Prejudice, indifference, and suffering.
(c) Circumstance, poverty, and innocence.
(d) Heaven, purity, and nature.

2. What is being referred to with the expression "silver break" (line 7)?
(a) Streetlights.
(b) Reflections.
(c) Headlights.
(d) Dawn.

3. Which two lines of each stanza create a kind of refrain in this poem?
(a) The first and third.
(b) The second and fourth.
(c) The fifth and sixth.
(d) The first and sixth.

4. Which line most clearly echoes the tension between "little girls" (line 5) and "prowling" (line 6)?
(a) Line 12, "Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street."
(b) Line 7, "Through the long night until the silver break."
(c) Line 11, "The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet."
(d) Line 9, "Through the lone night until the last snow-flake."

5. What are the sex workers wearing on their feet?
(a) Boots meant to protect them from snow and rain.
(b) Light shoes meant to be worn indoors.
(c) Elaborate shoes with high heels.
(d) Thick-soled shoes that make them appear taller.

6. In lines 2 and 3, the expression "when the night lets fall/ Its veil" is an example of which technique?
(a) Antithesis.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Personification.
(d) Simile.

7. What color does the speaker assign to the sex workers' feet?
(a) Gray.
(b) White.
(c) Black.
(d) Silver.

8. Which techniques are evident in line 4, "To bend and barter at desire's call"?
(a) Personification and asyndeton.
(b) Asyndeton and euphony.
(c) Alliteration and personification.
(d) Euphony and alliteration.

9. In line 16, what word does the speaker use to describe the feet of his own race?
(a) Sacred.
(b) Aching.
(c) Prideful.
(d) Fearful.

10. Which lines of each stanza are indented?
(a) The first and third.
(b) The second and fourth.
(c) The first and sixth.
(d) The fifth and sixth.

11. What does the word "shod" in line 12 refer to?
(a) Sound.
(b) Movement.
(c) Clothing.
(d) Footwear.

12. What does the expression "feet of clay" in line 15 refer to?
(a) Stubbornness and selfishness.
(b) A hidden character flaw.
(c) A delicate, easily-fractured nature.
(d) Cowardice and fear.

13. In the first image of the sex workers, what is being emphasized?
(a) The motion of their bodies.
(b) Their determination.
(c) Their reaction to the cold.
(d) The burden of social expectations.

14. In line 1, "footsteps of a lass" is an example of which technique?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Sibilance.
(c) Synesthesia.
(d) Alliteration.

15. Whose presence is implied in "To bend and barter at desire's call" (line 4)?
(a) Pimps.
(b) Bystanders.
(c) Clients.
(d) Police officers.

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